Famous quotes containing the words world and/or centres:
“I find ... that he is happiest of whom the world sais least, good or bad.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I perceive that in these woods the earliest settlements are, for various reasons, clustering about the lakes, but partly, I think, for the sake of the neighborhood as the oldest clearings. They are forest schools already established,—great centres of light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)